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As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.

Don Meyer

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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
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Let your players know that you love them.
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.
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Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play.
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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
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Anytime you get an award as a coach, you've got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn't your assistant coaches and all the players responsible for the award.
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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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We had 10 turnovers tonight. Each one gets worse as you go. It is like prior arrests: the 10th one may not have been that bad, but when you have had nine prior ones, it looks pretty bad.
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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